5 Written Questions

1. credited for discovering hunter's canal
2. Catholic belief that those whose souls are not perfectly cleansed undergo a process of cleansing before they can enter heaven
3. had total control of the embalming procedure. Considered the most prominent.
4. his report recommended all the following changes:
   1) all cemeteries were to be municipalized
   2) all trade cemeteries were to be abolished
   3) religious funeral rites were to be simplified and standardized
   4) a medical officer was to certify the ause of death
5. the placement of a cup of wine in the coffin beside the body from which everyone drank as they passed the coffin was done as a final tribute to the dead. practiced in IRELAND AND SCOTLAND

5 Matching Questions

1. town undertakers
2. neolithic period (iron age)
3. Necropolis
4. praeco (crier)
5. xaxos

1. a a municipal officer in colonial America; often appointed and had responsibility for duties pertaining to public health and sanitation
2. b 30,000 BC- 6,000 BC.
3. c a special funeral functionary in ancient Rome who summoned participants to a public funeral. OR the person who called out the Roman mourners and announched the funeral to the Republic.
4. d Guanches created mummies (with a flint knife called a tablona) that were referred to as:
5. e The (Egyptian) city of the dead. located just OUTSIDE the city; contained places for burial, mortuary temples and residences of mortuary workers.

5 Multiple Choice Questions

1. received the first patent for the corpse cooler and cooling board
   1. Frederick and Trump
   2. funeral customs
   3. herodotus
   4. Greek tombs
2. The Egyptians believed the secondary purpose for embalming was?
   1. religion
   2. Libitina
   3. sexton
   4. sanitation
3. The name of the coin placed on the deceased's eyes, or in their mouth which they could use to pay Charon.
   1. xaxos
   2. basar
   3. obol
   4. kiones
4. : Patented in 1848 as form-fitting, air-tight metallic coffin designed to improve ability to preserve the body; also had a glass plate to allow for viewing the face. Anthropoidal in shape. In 1852 M.H. Crane and J.R. Barnes acquired the manufacturing rights from Fisk.
   1. barbe
   2. soul shot
   3. burial case
   4. Fisk Casket
5. created in 1800's London by the "poor" people as a means to afford funerals; costs were shared by others via weekly collections; were the forerunners of industrial insurance.
   1. catacombs
   2. burial clubs
   3. burial case
   4. burial vault

5 True/False Questions

1. hearse → originated as a Hebrew practice, family and friends sit with the deceased as a precaution against premature buiral; continued as an act of piety in the Middle Ages; Also known as a vigil for the dead.

   True        False

2. kiss of peace → a major break in tradition between the Jews and Christians as each member of the family passed by in last review and kissed the deceased.

   True        False

3. sexton → The Egyptians belived the primary purpose for embalming was?

   True        False

4. trapezae → Greek tomb. square cut.

   True        False

5. bargber- surgeon guild → approximately 1540-1745. Were the sole agency permitted to embalm and perfrom anatomical dissections in the city of London

   True        False